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“Every day, every hour on the road towards perfection!” This
short expression, taken from one of his speeches about the
development of Khazar University, is most probably the best
reflection of his life motto.
Personality
Hamlet Isaxanli is an exceptional person, a polymath, with a
keen and enormous intellect, rich encyclopedic knowledge,
broad outlook, sharp scientific, artistic and poetic senses, a
gracious helping spirit, a strong will, optimism, and humanism
as well as outstanding leadership abilities and organizational
skills. His abilities to rejoice at others’ successes and to caringly
share others’ grief are striking.
His knowledge of mathematics, physics, astronomy, history,
international relations, linguistics, literature, culture, and
education, as well as his original way of thinking and unique
conclusions, pleasantly surprise people who associate with
him, even including specialists.
He is serious, frank, modest, kind and cheerful as well as a
man of sincerity. He works out proper and efficient ways to
achieve his objectives. He moves forward with patience, not
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biweekly in three languages – Azerbaijani, English, and
Russian. Khazar University Press is also an ISBN and ISMN
center of the Republic of Azerbaijan that deals with
international standardization/codification of books and
musical works.
Khazar University, this center of education and research, has
been a sanctuary of culture, art and sports since the days of its
foundation. In order to nourish students’ natural interests in
sports, Hamlet Isaxanli founded the Sports Club which now
boasts the great achievements of its professional football,
basketball, chess, and other teams, both in the national
supreme league and in international competitions.
The Song and Dance Ensemble of Khazar University wins
hearts with its professionalism and graciousness wherever it
performs, including Azerbaijan and abroad at festivals in the
Caucasus, Europe, and the Middle East.
The “Dunya” School, established by Hamlet Isaxanli in 1998,
affiliated with Khazar University and providing education at
the preschool, primary, secondary and high school levels, is a
successful and highly sought-out school where pupils receive a
bilingual education in Azerbaijani and English. Hamlet
Isaxanli put his ideas into practice not only in the higher
education system; but also to create a model for pre-university
education that would be able to compete internationally. Thus
he is realizing and providing his idea of lifelong education by
building a network of education institutions from early
childhood to the PhD and professorship levels.
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Public and
Scientific-Organizational Works
Hamlet Isaxanli is one of the extraordinary, rare personalities
who unites two cultures within himself: mathematics and
natural sciences with humanities and social sciences.
Hamlet Isaxanli is widely recognized as a committed scientist,
creative person and charismatic leader. He is the “creator of an
oasis” in Azerbaijan, as one scholar and public figure claimed,
attracting intellectuals, scientists and artists, as well as the
international community. Through his activity, scholarship,
creativity and leadership, Hamlet Isaxanli has achieved wide-
scale international cooperation and greatly contributed to
continued and sustainable institutional development and
capacity-building efforts.
Hamlet Isaxanli is a member of influential international
networks, associations, academies and boards, and a
participant and organizer of international projects and
gatherings in different continents and various countries. He
has delivered plenary lectures at conferences held by
international organizations such as UNESCO, NATO, UNDP,
and the Council of Europe. He has received honors and
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awards for his contribution to the development of research,
education and culture.
As a member of the Education Commission under the
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Hamlet Isaxanli is
actively participating in preparation and realization of reforms
carried out in the field of science and education.
The Science and Art Assembly (“Elm və Sənət Məclisi”),
founded and chaired by Hamlet Isaxanli, has turned into a
creative intellectual center, where scholars and artists from
diverse fields of study and creative young people come
together and carry on lively discussions about various
problems of arts and sciences. Speeches given by presenters
from different countries and the discussion minutes are
published first in the Khazar View magazine, then in separate
books by Khazar University Press.
He is a very fruitful and diligent editor; his editorship includes
research journals and magazines both in sciences and
humanities, transactions of conferences, textbooks and
monographs, encyclopedias and dictionaries, translations from
various languages into Azerbaijani and vice–versa in history,
mass media, poetry, novels, etc.
Hamlet Isaxanli is a caring supervisor who tries to develop
outlook and insight in his advanced students, taking them to
the frontlines of research if they are ready for hard work.
Scientists and researchers who defended dissertations under
his supervision now work in the USA, Europe, Russia, Israel,
Turkey, Iran and in other countries.
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